FortiGuard Antivirus Security Service

Stop Malware Attacks

The best way to protect your organization is to keep malware out. Hackers use malware to:

Cause data breaches

Extort money by encrypting data and holding it for ransom

Expose your intellectual property

Disrupt business and destroy systems

FortiGuard Antivirus protects against the latest viruses, spyware, and other content-level threats. It uses industry-leading advanced detection engines to prevent both new and evolving threats from gaining a foothold inside your network and accessing its invaluable content.

FortiGuard Antivirus is available with the FortiClient, FortiGate, FortiSandbox, FortiCache, FortiMail, and FortiWeb solutions.

The FortiGuard Antivirus Service:

Reduces the risk of data breach or damage caused by malware with highly effective antivirus protection delivered through multiple control points

Protects against the latest malware variants with proactive technologies able to block previously unknown threat variants

Keeps your protection up-to-date with hourly updates

Decreases management and operational costs with “set and forget” functionality

Lowers both your entry and maintenance costs with device-based licensing

FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Intelligence

Every minute of every day FortiGuard Labs neutralizes approximately 95,000 malware programs targeting traditional, mobile, and IoT platforms. Patented technologies enable FortiGuard Antivirus to identify thousands of current and future malware variants with a single signature – optimizing both security effectiveness and performance.

Knowledge of the threat landscape combined with the ability to respond quickly at multiple levels is the foundation for providing effective security. Hundreds of researchers at FortiGuard Labs scour the cyber landscape every day to discover emerging threats and develop effective countermeasures to protect organizations around the world. More than 250,000 organizations globally use FortiGuard security.

Test Your Protection

Attackers often get past security measures by hiding malware deep within compressed files. Many network security solutions are regularly fooled by this technique because they can't analyze a file compressed with any format other than ZIP. Test your network antivirus solution to see if your security will catch malware hiding in a compressed file with Test Your Metal.